Planes are typically supposed to go inside hangars but emergency crews were stunned to find that a small plane had crashed on top of a hangar at Hendersonville Airport on Friday.
The plane was on top of the hangar and leaking fluid when the Blue Ridge Fire Department arrived. Only the pilot, , Andrew Michael Bell, 35, of Zirconia was inside the plane at the time and he survived without life threatening injuries. The fire department helped get him down from the top of the building, Blue Ridge Now reports.
Even though he didn't have serious injuries, the EMS were called to treat facial lacerations. Power company, Duke Energy was also called to fix a power line that went down in the incident.
The plane that crashed was a 1975 Cessna fixed-wing single engine plane. It is owned by Blue Ridge Sport Flight LLC of Gainesville, Fla.
The crash did not affect other operations at Hendersonville Airport. The airport remained open for air traffic.
The Henderson County Sheriff's Office, Henderson County EMS and the Henderson County fire marshal's office also responded to the scene.
This isn't the first time an accident occurred near Hendersonville Airport. In September 2007, a one-seat plane crashed in a swamp just yards away from the airport. The pilot was injured in that incident.. A month later, a Cessna 182 crashed just after taking off from the airport. Three Florida residents were involved in that accident but none were injured.
In December 2007, a small single-engine Cirrus four-passenger plane crashed at the end of the runway at Hendersonville Airport when the plane was attempting to land.
There was another plane crash in Florida in February. A Cessna 310 was heading to Bartow from Okeechobee when it crashed in a marsh area about 20 miles west of Vero Beach. Three people died in that incident.
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